Author: Cecil J. R. LeMesurier
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.

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Category : Law, Kandyan
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Author: Nadaraja
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900464444X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Author: James S. Duncan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521611961
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

Author: Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113503835X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State signified a relatively unbounded (although at times boundary forming) set of practices that facilitated both the inclusion and exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ concepts and people within a particular cosmological frame. Juxtaposing the premodern against the backdrop of colonial modernity, de Silva Wijeyeratne tells us that in contrast modern 'Sinhalese Buddhism/nationalism' is a much more reified and bounded concept, one imagined through a 19th century epistemology whose purpose was not so much inclusion, but a much more radical exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ ideas and people. In this insightful analysis modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, then, emerges through the conjunction of discourse, power and knowledge at a distinct moment in the trajectory of the colonial State. An intrinsic feature of this modernist moment is that premodern categories (such as the cosmic order) were subject to a bureaucratic re-valuation that generated profound consequences for State-society relations and the wider constitutional/legal imaginary. This book goes onto explore how key constitutional and nation-building moments were framed within the cultural milieu of modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism – a nationalism that reveals the power of a re-valued Buddhist cosmic order to still inform the present. Given the intensification of the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist project following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009, this book is of interest to scholars of nationalism, South Asian studies, the anthropology of ritual, and comparative legal history.

Author: Ceylon. Superintendent of Census
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Carla Risseeuw
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004616446
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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